I had a similar thing happen at a local mexican food place (they're family-owned and make what are easily the best quesadillas on the west coast). Went over to grab some lunch, owner was handing out free samples of a new idea he had, literally noone was wearing a mask or obeying social-distancing crap. The whole mask policy thing is slowly starting to become like the beer-ban simpsons episode where the smart companies will find ways to get around it and keep all of their customers.
Worth checking out as the episode is quite hilarious. There's one famous scene where the local cop goes to check out the bar when everyone's drinking, walks into the bar with everyone holding a beer behind their backs, then when he says he's going to make a huge announcement soon everyone cheers while holding up their beers as he has his back turned.
I have only been to one store where I live where someone has physically stood in front of the door to not let me in. Most places don't say anything, pretty much just Wal-mart says anything but I won't go there anymore.
They did but they still have their people tell you that you need to wear one, at least here in VA. Our governor is a shitbag. But I would just as soon not go to Wal-mart even without the mask requirement if I can help it.
It plainly lists several exemptions which can easily be stretched to anything. In addition, right below the exemption it states that one need not carry or provide documentation or give any explanation of any exemptions to anybody.
I haven't warn a mask in Arlington in weeks. The morons around here wear their masks while jogging outside in 95 degree heat. I often get the evil stares but this far noone said anything indoors or out.
How does that policy even make sense? So if someone asks me to put on a mask, I can just start doing jumping jacks in place and all of a sudden covid disappears
"Very small effect". Yep. So, let's say you want to take a meatloaf out of the oven with your bare hands. Well, no, obviously that would immediately cause severe burns, so you know not to do that. Instead, you grab a couple pieces of paper towel, use them as hotpads to protect your hands. Good idea? Oh of course not, still severe burns.
But they have a "very small effect", right? So sure, do that? No, obviously not.
Same issue with a mask that has a "very small effect". No, you don't bother with that. You do something else that can actually help. Doing the mask just means you actually don't do something else that's useful.
Exactly. It is devilishly hard to do good science. Statistics are grossly misused, usually only to support one lie or another. It's so tough to assess population-level phenomena. So, since we can't really see what effects are happening at a population level, one can consider the small-scale physics of how masks work, or don't. It's about all there is.
Off topic, but whats up with the vote counts? It shows you have plus 15 upvotes but only 5 points currently, on everyone. It did anyway, now its fixed. Been seeing this all day
If you aren't infected, how are you at risk of infecting others?
How are we worried about a flu virus in 100 degree weather where viruses can't survive? (this is why your temperature rises when you get sick - TO KILL OFF INFECTION!)
How do masks stop a virus too small for it to stop?
How are so many people such anti-american sheep going to slaughter?
Why is nobody buying and supplementing with Zinc, Vitamin C/D3, Elderberry, local honey, and the hundreds of other foods known to boost and strengthen your immune system?
Why don't they just get the virus and beat it so we can all get on with our lives?
I have questions man and we all KNOW the answer to them all so I'm not feeling sympathy for anybody destroying their futures and committing crimes against logic by wearing a suffocation burka.
These masks mandates have to be the most unscientific reaction to a virus ever. All just theater to control the people and allow governors to say “look I did something!” And blame new ever growing cases on the “non-mask wearers”
I have a friend whose brother owns a MMA gym. He's been told that he probably won't be able to reopen for a few months. Meanwhile, he's wondering how he's going to pay his mortgage.
It’s because they’re trying to shut down the people who are physically fit to fight against them. I hope and pray that your brother stays afloat! Fuck lockdowns is right!
Some gym owners are fighting for their customers. Go to planetfitness.com and you’ll see a video of them showing you how to workout in a mask (for your “safety”).
Not getting exercise and more frequent auto-immune responses to strengthen your body as well as immune system is going to kill people like you cannot fathom as you have barely looked into the short term consequences of it.
God help us. This is mass suicide cult initiation.
5G is a whole other can of worms. No one that works in tech can ever seem to answer me when I ask if the issue with the frequency being used causing interactions within human cells using sweat as a transmission medium was fixed. There's either nervous laughter or an outright change of topic.
Working out at home is superior in every which way. LA Fitness charges $30 a month. Over 3 years that is $1,080. For the same $1,080, I can find myself a nice squat rack, a barbell with about 300lbs of weights, and a bench. That is literally all you need. Guys in prison get jacked by working out in a 8x5 cell. Gyms are useless, all those expensive specialized machines do not give you a better workout than just regular weights.
When I was in high school I told my uncle that I joined a gym. He laughed and said if I wanted to get jacked, come work on his farm as he has a ton of rocks he needs moved. Said that will be a better work out than any gym could give me.
Plus, gyms are about the only place you can find fit women in high concentration anymore. I dont want some slag who hangs out at bars, I want a babe who puts in the work to keep her bod smokin hot. You'll even find a lot of MILFs who are hotter than the average random younger chick these days.
Yea I will never step foot inside a gym again. This whole thing made me redo my guest room into my home workout room. Better on time, machines always open, no douchebags, and I can workout whenever I am feeling it.
I hate that so many business just WENT on board with the health advice some of these FREAKS in the Health sectors of our governments advice. They have got to start sticking with Americans who actually have the fucking money to spend with them rather than catering to who the FUCKING television says they should.
Wait serious? I remember hearing when they removed their squat racks. But they are restricting bench to 225 max? WTF - you can't even build on that. 225 is like normal weight for mid to larger high school students.
Man, I tried to go to one in a city I was doing consulting work in, and they literally told me no over head shoulder press, they have a machine for that.
I moved to bench and did one set at 225, then went to add more weight and they asked me to leave.
They’re whole business model is targeted at selling memberships to people that they know will rarely actually use their gym. That’s why they can afford to do deals for $10/month and still be completely empty all day. It’s like getting a Netflix subscription because you really wanted to watch 1 show, and then keeping it for years because it’s not that much money and you like the idea of still having access to the site even though you never really use it anymore.
I can second this, 225 was what I was benching in high school when I was just maintaining. We had some fuckers on the football team who would throw on 400lbs on the bench.
This policy is even worse. This now requires that their customers constantly put on and take off their masks, after touching equipment that others have touched. Is the air suddenly purified because you’re “actively working out”? Either remove the mask restriction entirely, or mandate the masks at all times. This “half way in between” policy both removes any possible positive effect of wearing a mask while at the same time promoting spread due to touching of masks and face.
It's like a multilayered oxymoron. Breath heavy without a mask on, but then it defies the point of wearing a mask either way. The point was to slow infections, so we would have to wear masks indefinitely if they actually worked. Being healthy is the best defense. Putting it on and taking it off constantly is great too. I'd say someday these morons will realize that getting sick is part of life, but the concept of "getting over it" is lost on them.
I work closely with a liberal guy who is in charge of a recreation facility. I’ve never seen him so stressed in my 10 years of working with him. He is spending every waking hour addressing complaints from members. The thing is, he is the one who invites people to complain because he acts like he is genuinely concerned every time anyone says anything negative.
All it would take would be for him to refuse to respond to a few complaints and they would all disappear, because everyone would realize that they are not nearly as important as they think they are. He makes them feel like they are all important. I’ve been trying to use this as a red pill opportunity for him.
it is a form of conditioning but not one you want to do all the time. Think of it similar to chute-running. But I think your average Planet Shitness goer isn't doing extreme forms of conditioning
I changed gyms once because I felt like I was stuck. Which I was. I was making progress at the new gym, Unfortunately, the upper management of the company decided to screw over the GM of Gym and have him run two gyms. which was a mess then they decided to make a business deal to lease the building to someone else and closed. So I follow the GM to a locally owned gym and enjoy the gym.
If you're on a really tight budget and the local franchise owner is chill, it can be a decent option. Although if the owner's a twat, you're better off doing bodyweight stuff at home.
Cancelled my membership with Lifetime yesterday. When asked why, told them I don’t appreciate their mask policy. I have equipment at home, not gonna stop me from working out.
I dont even understand where this came from. Been going to PF in Tampa for like 3 months now since this bullshit started and some tards wore masks if they wanted the rest of us didnt. Why change now?
That is their business model. But make no mistake, they’re one of the largest fitness chains in the U.S., this is a big deal.
They market to those who typically aren’t dedicated to the gym, and rely on thousands of nearly unused memberships to fund their locations, hence why they can charge only $10 or so a month. They need every account they can get, otherwise their model is not sustainable.
We had subscriptions to Planet Fitness, a really nice new one too and were enjoying it quite a bit. Then chy-na virus happened and the whole world lost it's mind. After 2 weeks when no one opened back up again I decided to build a home gym... at probably the most difficult time in history.
It took a little over 3 months to assemble all the home gym pieces I wanted to have: adjustable dumbbells, adjustable kettle bells, Olympic weights, bar and power rack, a decent clock, weight stands, rubber flooring, plus a fresh paint job, lighting and remote control fans... it's a massive project and I'm not completely done with it yet but it's functional and by far everyone's favorite room in the house now. Still might put in a monitor in front of the treadmill so we can run the Grand Canyon, watch a movie or scroll thedonald.win, but got to work out the finer details on that one.
Financially, it makes sense too. Given subscription fees and average price of gas and mileage to and from the nice new Planet Fitness, my home gym will pay for itself in 18 months.
You know whats really nice? I don't have to wear a shirt, my shower is almost always empty, parking is not a concern, I don't have to lock up my stuff, I don't even need my gym bag anymore. There's no primadonnas strutting around or faggots not cleaning up after themselves on the machines. I never have to wait for anyone else to finish with something... the list goes on. You know, I've seen more gains in the last few months since it's been functional. But the real kicker? That feeling when I first laid down on my bench and up at the bar and the ceiling beyond and realize I'm in my own house... no subscription gym could ever duplicate that.
I don't care what the latest face diaper policy is. I'm never going back. Ever.
Ah the old rent vs buy argument. If you use something expensive once and awhile rent it. If you use it every day look into buying it. You will save money. For example an RV if you use it once every 10 years rent it. If you are driving around the country and going all sorts of places look into buying one.
I did this with cable TV. I was renting content. You can buy a lot of DVDs per month for the cost of 1 month of cable. I have well over 3500 of them now at this point. Take for example game of thrones. I have not seen it yet. Yet instead of giving HBO 300+ dollars for a rental I can now buy the whole set for ~100 bucks and binge watch at my time and basically re-watch whenever I feel like it. That is new too. If I go on ebay or something like that I probably can get it cheaper used.
Many of these companies have tricked us into thinking renting is better than buying. For them it is. For you not so much.
Perhaps, but they decided to virtue signal, only back peddling after losing money.
If a business decides allow their players to disrespect America and it’s flag, do you go back when they say “please come back” just prior to bankruptcy?
They gutted the policy. It's just enough to say "We have a mask policy" without actually having one. Same with Kroger and Walmart. I'm cool with a mistake as long as you fix it.
If you have the space, take the $$ you'd spend monthly and invest in quality home equipment. Never worry about someone hating on you curling in the squat rack again.
I read this, realized I still have a membership with them and had not used it in forever. Literally got out of my chair, drove across the street, and canceled that membership and told them it was because of the mask requirement.
never return to these lib companies. they only want you back so they can continue to yell at you. let them yell alone in a dark room where no one hears them instead.
By following the tyrants, thet forced people away from gyms. People who are serious about working out have been doing it at home since they particpated in the lockdown. They're only going to keep a fraction of their customers.
Can confirm. ☝️ I bought a bench, a barbell, disc weights and dumbells. I just go downstairs, put on the music ot tv channel l want, no driving, no waiting for equipement, no wiping down other people's sweat off the gear. l wont be renewing my membership.
Wearing a mask, in the current situation, is a gesture of submission. It's alarmingto see all those faceless zombies walking around as if everything is normal. I think it is our duty to refuse and resist this lemming run over the cliff.
Me personally. Don't like Planet Fitness, I see then a wal-mart like in the fitness. get you in and get your cash. They don't care about results and helping you. I have been a member of three gyms. One was a YMCA which was piss poor manage. Keep jacking the rates. Keep charging you for things you weren't going to use. Then went to a corporate owned gym. Local Management was awesome. Expect top management was clueless. They had a great idea and business plan. They had no clue how to operate a fitness center. Decided to get back into the property renting business. All of them are now Dollar General's. Now at a local gym that went through a rough patch like all of them but is doing good.
They have zero incentive to give a shit about their customers, because they believe they can just go get a government bailout check. They will complain their business was impacted by the government, ignore their own capitulation, and get MILLIONS in bailout from you and me. Now, small local gyms, dance studios, martial arts centers, and little leagues are completely shut down and most won't recover, but will get NOTHING but an unemployment check, if they are even that lucky. And the Democrat leadership? They are LOVING this misery.
Just buy gym equipment. Its pretty cheap. I calculated my payback period at 18 months. It kept me going for 18 months for sure still going after 3 years with a 12 month injury setback.
I just bought a squat rack bench press combo, then some dumbbells off a mate and some cheap rubber mats. The only other things Id like are a running machine. But I just run outside so no big deal.
Also gloves and weight belt which I actually realised I didnt add so maybe 19 months. Also im an Aussie this shits probs half the price in the US.
OP, that level of intransigence is best reserved for things like pro sports that support BLM and kneel for the anthem and all that.
A business that adjusts its policies in response to customer feedback should be rewarded, and thus business is itself struggling with government policies making them pass on shitty policies.
They did not adjust due to “customer feedback”, they adjusted due to customers leaving.
Go on Twitter and read how condescending the company was to those who cancelled due to the mask policy.
They were not just “passing down government policies”. If that were the case, they wouldn’t have rolled it back.
It was a corporate choice to virtue signal.
Further, what you tolerate, you get more of. “15 days to slow the spread” changed real quick. Don’t give a cent to advance virtue signaling and/or tyranny.
Not “most of their business”, most of their new accounts. They rely on 1,000s of rarely used accounts as a part of their business model. They may have 1,000x the number of members as a nearby comparable gym, hence why they can charge so little. However, when those accounts are cancelled en masse, it is no longer sustainable to charge only $10.
Options:
Get people back in (not likely without “6 months free!” type promotions).
Charge more (would backfire, as their base is largely those who don’t workout regularly, thus won’t pay more)
I’m in the people’s republic of Maryland and I refuse to wear a mask anywhere, so far no one at any store has had the balls to say anything, which is kind of upsetting because I’ve been looking forward to telling them to pound sand, but I guess smiling at everyone while they all walk around with their face condoms will have to do
Send this video to your city management: https://youtu.be/S1bc5500tBQ
Then distribute among citizens.
Liberals idiots won't get his intent and say seeee he says masks are safe!
Sure. So what? Doing absolutely nothing will get us very predictable results.
I just like to keep it really simple for stupid people.
https://kekpe.pe/i/5f2613fdc8f07.jpg
Unfortunately those people just ignore it.
Local talk-show host got her butt kicked off faceberg for posting an image just like that, the text on a box of masks.
Liberal feelings = science
Don't mean you have to be anti-activism.
Excellent point. I'll see if I can contact this guy and mention it to him although he's totally overrun with attention now, I'm sure.
I had a similar thing happen at a local mexican food place (they're family-owned and make what are easily the best quesadillas on the west coast). Went over to grab some lunch, owner was handing out free samples of a new idea he had, literally noone was wearing a mask or obeying social-distancing crap. The whole mask policy thing is slowly starting to become like the beer-ban simpsons episode where the smart companies will find ways to get around it and keep all of their customers.
Didn't see that but did know a guy who called it "cold barley soup."
"Hey innkeeper, give me a mug of cold barley soup."
Worth checking out as the episode is quite hilarious. There's one famous scene where the local cop goes to check out the bar when everyone's drinking, walks into the bar with everyone holding a beer behind their backs, then when he says he's going to make a huge announcement soon everyone cheers while holding up their beers as he has his back turned.
Visited a Kinkos today. Mask mandate sign on the door. Still enter without one and no one says a thing.
I have only been to one store where I live where someone has physically stood in front of the door to not let me in. Most places don't say anything, pretty much just Wal-mart says anything but I won't go there anymore.
Thought they reversed their mandatory mask requirement?
They did but they still have their people tell you that you need to wear one, at least here in VA. Our governor is a shitbag. But I would just as soon not go to Wal-mart even without the mask requirement if I can help it.
Shitbag governor, but an easy to overcome EO.
It plainly lists several exemptions which can easily be stretched to anything. In addition, right below the exemption it states that one need not carry or provide documentation or give any explanation of any exemptions to anybody.
I haven't warn a mask in Arlington in weeks. The morons around here wear their masks while jogging outside in 95 degree heat. I often get the evil stares but this far noone said anything indoors or out.
Silent Majority.
Shouldn’t have worn one at all. But hey. Not all cave when fearful of standing out.
The “slight adjustment” is that you don’t have to wear a mask while working out, exactly the same policy prior to cancellations.
How does that policy even make sense? So if someone asks me to put on a mask, I can just start doing jumping jacks in place and all of a sudden covid disappears
“How does that policy even mask sense?”
How does a cloth mask, which does not protect against viruses, make sense at any time to protect against viruses?
"inconclusive"
lol I looked into buying a mask for biking years ago when I went through the traffic of downtown
the myriads of research and personal individual accounts confirm they only suffocate you and do conclusively hurt your immune system.
You don't need a study to know that oxygen deprivation and breathing in your own exhale or a tank of CO2 is harmful and eventually deadly.
"Very small effect". Yep. So, let's say you want to take a meatloaf out of the oven with your bare hands. Well, no, obviously that would immediately cause severe burns, so you know not to do that. Instead, you grab a couple pieces of paper towel, use them as hotpads to protect your hands. Good idea? Oh of course not, still severe burns.
But they have a "very small effect", right? So sure, do that? No, obviously not.
Same issue with a mask that has a "very small effect". No, you don't bother with that. You do something else that can actually help. Doing the mask just means you actually don't do something else that's useful.
Exactly. It is devilishly hard to do good science. Statistics are grossly misused, usually only to support one lie or another. It's so tough to assess population-level phenomena. So, since we can't really see what effects are happening at a population level, one can consider the small-scale physics of how masks work, or don't. It's about all there is.
The only study I saw gave a 2% improvement. Of course, it had a +/- range of 2%. So it either helped a whole 4% or 0%. Woooo!
Off topic, but whats up with the vote counts? It shows you have plus 15 upvotes but only 5 points currently, on everyone. It did anyway, now its fixed. Been seeing this all day
Issues with the display code I think.
If you aren't infected, how are you at risk of infecting others?
How are we worried about a flu virus in 100 degree weather where viruses can't survive? (this is why your temperature rises when you get sick - TO KILL OFF INFECTION!)
How do masks stop a virus too small for it to stop?
How are so many people such anti-american sheep going to slaughter?
Why is nobody buying and supplementing with Zinc, Vitamin C/D3, Elderberry, local honey, and the hundreds of other foods known to boost and strengthen your immune system?
Why don't they just get the virus and beat it so we can all get on with our lives?
I have questions man and we all KNOW the answer to them all so I'm not feeling sympathy for anybody destroying their futures and committing crimes against logic by wearing a suffocation burka.
These masks mandates have to be the most unscientific reaction to a virus ever. All just theater to control the people and allow governors to say “look I did something!” And blame new ever growing cases on the “non-mask wearers”
They did the same for the Spanish Flu, interestingly enough.
I’d just say breathing is my work out.
This is my workout...
https://sheltonqigong.com/what-is-wu-ji-posture/
Lol, I do taichi too, so this slays me!
Haha, you'll love this one then. ;)
https://www.qi-journal.com/images/graphics/Figure8.1.jpg
https://www.qi-journal.com/qigong-meditation/meditation/2771-journey-to-stillness
Wait, we now have a way to erase obesity:
You're allowed to not wear a mask if you're working out, doing jumping jacks, or jogging in place. Because Science^TM!
It’s like the restaurant mask requirements.
You have to wear a mask to enter, be walked to a table, and then take them off for the rest of the evening.
It’s like Covid only transmits when you’re walking around.
"No Judgement Zone"
Judges you on not wearing a mask
Many people also said they will never go to a gym again. Man, I would not want to be a gym owner.
I have a friend whose brother owns a MMA gym. He's been told that he probably won't be able to reopen for a few months. Meanwhile, he's wondering how he's going to pay his mortgage.
Fuck lockdowns.
Just open but don't make a show of it. A gym in my area has had a stealth opening. They covered the windows with paper and signs "under remodeling".
What a state of affairs. We're starting to have speakeasy gyms.
With blackjack and hookers!
I'm betting some places have speakeasy bars too. There's no way there isn't underground business by now.
My parents got a speakeasy haircut in their kitchen by their old barber who was forced to retire.
Manh industries are still shut down. I've watched two restaurants in my area that will never reopen cause of this
It’s because they’re trying to shut down the people who are physically fit to fight against them. I hope and pray that your brother stays afloat! Fuck lockdowns is right!
Combat gyms must all be going bankrupt soon. God bless them would love to get back into Muay Thai soon.
I miss my Jiu-Jitsu:(
Some gym owners are fighting for their customers. Go to planetfitness.com and you’ll see a video of them showing you how to workout in a mask (for your “safety”).
"All your exercise is now anaerobic exercise! Passing out is a great workout!" - Planet fitness
Planet shitness
It's a franchise chain, I bet corperate managed to piss off most of their franchisees with that shit.
the WORLD economy has crashed.
Not getting exercise and more frequent auto-immune responses to strengthen your body as well as immune system is going to kill people like you cannot fathom as you have barely looked into the short term consequences of it.
God help us. This is mass suicide cult initiation.
I blame the 5G. I have not seen this level of retardation in ALL of my years. Something is suspect. People are fucking retarded.
5G is a whole other can of worms. No one that works in tech can ever seem to answer me when I ask if the issue with the frequency being used causing interactions within human cells using sweat as a transmission medium was fixed. There's either nervous laughter or an outright change of topic.
Working out at home is superior in every which way. LA Fitness charges $30 a month. Over 3 years that is $1,080. For the same $1,080, I can find myself a nice squat rack, a barbell with about 300lbs of weights, and a bench. That is literally all you need. Guys in prison get jacked by working out in a 8x5 cell. Gyms are useless, all those expensive specialized machines do not give you a better workout than just regular weights.
When I was in high school I told my uncle that I joined a gym. He laughed and said if I wanted to get jacked, come work on his farm as he has a ton of rocks he needs moved. Said that will be a better work out than any gym could give me.
Yeah but you can’t look at sweaty hot girls in tight yoga pants, boobs gently bouncing up and down in real time
Plus, gyms are about the only place you can find fit women in high concentration anymore. I dont want some slag who hangs out at bars, I want a babe who puts in the work to keep her bod smokin hot. You'll even find a lot of MILFs who are hotter than the average random younger chick these days.
Your comment made me spit my drink,lmao!🤣👌
Yea I will never step foot inside a gym again. This whole thing made me redo my guest room into my home workout room. Better on time, machines always open, no douchebags, and I can workout whenever I am feeling it.
I hate that so many business just WENT on board with the health advice some of these FREAKS in the Health sectors of our governments advice. They have got to start sticking with Americans who actually have the fucking money to spend with them rather than catering to who the FUCKING television says they should.
We will teach them how to win.
Planet fitness doesn't let you bench more than two plates. Not even joking.
Aren't they the same place that has a literal shaming alarm for dropping weights or doing dead lifts?
And free pizza every month
We need a Pizzagate investigation into it. Keep it on the DL. Don't want a Dem to fire one round and have the media claim it's debunked again.
Wait serious? I remember hearing when they removed their squat racks. But they are restricting bench to 225 max? WTF - you can't even build on that. 225 is like normal weight for mid to larger high school students.
Man, I tried to go to one in a city I was doing consulting work in, and they literally told me no over head shoulder press, they have a machine for that.
I moved to bench and did one set at 225, then went to add more weight and they asked me to leave.
Xir , please stop lifting our soyfilled weights, the other customers are getting scared. Please leave our latte gym now.
Planet Fitness actively promotes itself as the gym for snowflakes who are intimidated by the macho people at other gyms. No joke.
They’re whole business model is targeted at selling memberships to people that they know will rarely actually use their gym. That’s why they can afford to do deals for $10/month and still be completely empty all day. It’s like getting a Netflix subscription because you really wanted to watch 1 show, and then keeping it for years because it’s not that much money and you like the idea of still having access to the site even though you never really use it anymore.
Judgment free zone!!
Safe space
Which makes it hilarious when macho dudes walk in.
https://fitnessvolt.com/brian-shaw-560lb-bench/#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20almost%20two%20years%20since%20former,Planet%20Fitness%2C%20he%20did%20so%20with%20a%20vengeance.
I can second this, 225 was what I was benching in high school when I was just maintaining. We had some fuckers on the football team who would throw on 400lbs on the bench.
nah idk what this guy is on about my warmup is 2 plates and i go from there
Nah, I used to go there, my location didn’t have any rules like that. I saw some beasts in there regularly bench 400+
My PF got rid of all free weights
This policy is even worse. This now requires that their customers constantly put on and take off their masks, after touching equipment that others have touched. Is the air suddenly purified because you’re “actively working out”? Either remove the mask restriction entirely, or mandate the masks at all times. This “half way in between” policy both removes any possible positive effect of wearing a mask while at the same time promoting spread due to touching of masks and face.
It's like a multilayered oxymoron. Breath heavy without a mask on, but then it defies the point of wearing a mask either way. The point was to slow infections, so we would have to wear masks indefinitely if they actually worked. Being healthy is the best defense. Putting it on and taking it off constantly is great too. I'd say someday these morons will realize that getting sick is part of life, but the concept of "getting over it" is lost on them.
I work closely with a liberal guy who is in charge of a recreation facility. I’ve never seen him so stressed in my 10 years of working with him. He is spending every waking hour addressing complaints from members. The thing is, he is the one who invites people to complain because he acts like he is genuinely concerned every time anyone says anything negative.
All it would take would be for him to refuse to respond to a few complaints and they would all disappear, because everyone would realize that they are not nearly as important as they think they are. He makes them feel like they are all important. I’ve been trying to use this as a red pill opportunity for him.
Walking is exercise. Walking to and from equipment is exercise.
Millgram effect.
But exerting yourself AND depriving yourself of oxygen at the same time seems smart to me! /s
it is a form of conditioning but not one you want to do all the time. Think of it similar to chute-running. But I think your average Planet Shitness goer isn't doing extreme forms of conditioning
How the fuck would you wear a mask while working out?
How do you expect to survive long while breathing your own CO2 with oxygen dep and no auto-immune responses?
Bubble beta boys are about to meet the grim reaper in 6 months.
The world will call it "COVIDOL" and lock us down more for more death.
Repent now.
Intentionally wear the mask wrong, with your nose hanging out?
imagine sweating after running a mile and trying to breathe through a soaked piece of fabric
dO yOu wAnT gRaNdmA to dIEee???
Planet Fitness is the gym for people that want to pretend they’re working out.
Change my mind.
I changed gyms once because I felt like I was stuck. Which I was. I was making progress at the new gym, Unfortunately, the upper management of the company decided to screw over the GM of Gym and have him run two gyms. which was a mess then they decided to make a business deal to lease the building to someone else and closed. So I follow the GM to a locally owned gym and enjoy the gym.
If you're on a really tight budget and the local franchise owner is chill, it can be a decent option. Although if the owner's a twat, you're better off doing bodyweight stuff at home.
Cancelled my membership with Lifetime yesterday. When asked why, told them I don’t appreciate their mask policy. I have equipment at home, not gonna stop me from working out.
If I'm already working out, tired and short of breath, last thing i want to do is restrict my breathing more.
I dont even understand where this came from. Been going to PF in Tampa for like 3 months now since this bullshit started and some tards wore masks if they wanted the rest of us didnt. Why change now?
Election is months away bro. Do you even vote?
I guess everyone will be wearing a mask 24/7 at planet fitness, bc nobody ever is actively working out there anyway 😉
That is their business model. But make no mistake, they’re one of the largest fitness chains in the U.S., this is a big deal.
They market to those who typically aren’t dedicated to the gym, and rely on thousands of nearly unused memberships to fund their locations, hence why they can charge only $10 or so a month. They need every account they can get, otherwise their model is not sustainable.
lol
I cancelled yesterday
Someone get this man a coat!
That's better then my gym. Still isn't open.
We had subscriptions to Planet Fitness, a really nice new one too and were enjoying it quite a bit. Then chy-na virus happened and the whole world lost it's mind. After 2 weeks when no one opened back up again I decided to build a home gym... at probably the most difficult time in history.
It took a little over 3 months to assemble all the home gym pieces I wanted to have: adjustable dumbbells, adjustable kettle bells, Olympic weights, bar and power rack, a decent clock, weight stands, rubber flooring, plus a fresh paint job, lighting and remote control fans... it's a massive project and I'm not completely done with it yet but it's functional and by far everyone's favorite room in the house now. Still might put in a monitor in front of the treadmill so we can run the Grand Canyon, watch a movie or scroll thedonald.win, but got to work out the finer details on that one.
Financially, it makes sense too. Given subscription fees and average price of gas and mileage to and from the nice new Planet Fitness, my home gym will pay for itself in 18 months.
You know whats really nice? I don't have to wear a shirt, my shower is almost always empty, parking is not a concern, I don't have to lock up my stuff, I don't even need my gym bag anymore. There's no primadonnas strutting around or faggots not cleaning up after themselves on the machines. I never have to wait for anyone else to finish with something... the list goes on. You know, I've seen more gains in the last few months since it's been functional. But the real kicker? That feeling when I first laid down on my bench and up at the bar and the ceiling beyond and realize I'm in my own house... no subscription gym could ever duplicate that.
I don't care what the latest face diaper policy is. I'm never going back. Ever.
Home Gym for life!
Someone get this man a coat!
Ah the old rent vs buy argument. If you use something expensive once and awhile rent it. If you use it every day look into buying it. You will save money. For example an RV if you use it once every 10 years rent it. If you are driving around the country and going all sorts of places look into buying one.
I did this with cable TV. I was renting content. You can buy a lot of DVDs per month for the cost of 1 month of cable. I have well over 3500 of them now at this point. Take for example game of thrones. I have not seen it yet. Yet instead of giving HBO 300+ dollars for a rental I can now buy the whole set for ~100 bucks and binge watch at my time and basically re-watch whenever I feel like it. That is new too. If I go on ebay or something like that I probably can get it cheaper used.
Many of these companies have tricked us into thinking renting is better than buying. For them it is. For you not so much.
Since this received a bit of attention, let’s discuss.
WHY are they fighting gyms SO hard?
Working out equates to fitness, strength, greater immunity
Leads to clarity of mind
Boosts serotonin, dopamine, “feel good” hormones
Leads to a sense of accomplishment
In summary, the more you exercise, the more healthy and less depressed you will be. You will not lock yourself in the basement in fear.
It's also a social experience. Everyone is bettering themselves and there is an air of sexual energy.
Like partner dance classes.
I just hung out at a hippie drum circle a couple days ago. Shook some hands and got some one armed hugs. It was refreshing.
Not sure what to take from this. Sad to say I am not as enlightened as you at the gym lol.
It's like eating with people by a campfire. We're social animals. Being around them charges different batteries.
Even stuff like eye contact is being reduced because people don't want a confrontation.
That's submissive body language. Your body is gonna pump stress chemicals.
Touching gives you oxytocin. Winning gives you a bunch of serotonin and dopamine.
Get what I'm saying? I'm sure this idea could be fleshed out better.
I get the idea. Likely why wearing GOGGLES is now being pushed (DuckDuckGo: “fauci goggles”).
These symbols are serious baggage. "Ideologically possessed" comes to mind.
In their defense, they realized quickly that they made a mistake and listened to their customers. I'm fine with that.
Perhaps, but they decided to virtue signal, only back peddling after losing money.
If a business decides allow their players to disrespect America and it’s flag, do you go back when they say “please come back” just prior to bankruptcy?
They changed their policy within a week, before it even went into effect. Half these places still require it.
They still require masks inside the gym. How do you see that as listening to their customers or realizing they made a mistake?
They gutted the policy. It's just enough to say "We have a mask policy" without actually having one. Same with Kroger and Walmart. I'm cool with a mistake as long as you fix it.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE BITCHES!
Goya is my preworkout
Gotta work out those intenstines, bro.
Vote with your dollars. I always pay more to MAGA
If you have the space, take the $$ you'd spend monthly and invest in quality home equipment. Never worry about someone hating on you curling in the squat rack again.
Not good enough. Wondering how many members are going to cancel their policy anyway.
I read this, realized I still have a membership with them and had not used it in forever. Literally got out of my chair, drove across the street, and canceled that membership and told them it was because of the mask requirement.
It felt like voting to me, at a smaller scale.
Amen, Brother! (or Sister!)
never return to these lib companies. they only want you back so they can continue to yell at you. let them yell alone in a dark room where no one hears them instead.
Atlas Shrugged
By following the tyrants, thet forced people away from gyms. People who are serious about working out have been doing it at home since they particpated in the lockdown. They're only going to keep a fraction of their customers.
Can confirm. ☝️ I bought a bench, a barbell, disc weights and dumbells. I just go downstairs, put on the music ot tv channel l want, no driving, no waiting for equipement, no wiping down other people's sweat off the gear. l wont be renewing my membership.
I was just thinking today that I need to email management at my gym and say thanks for not harassing me for not wearing the "mandatory" masks.
Great idea, let them hear the support.
Better idea, also give them a 5-star review.
GO TO A REAL GYM WHERE YOU'RE ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO LIFT AND DO USEFUL SHIT INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR TIME!
Email all your local gyms and tell them that you are ready to join as soon as they open up without restrictions and to call you when they do.
Wearing a mask, in the current situation, is a gesture of submission. It's alarmingto see all those faceless zombies walking around as if everything is normal. I think it is our duty to refuse and resist this lemming run over the cliff.
I want to see more pedes open up their own gyms.
Walk in, no mask
Desk jockey: “hey, where mask?”
Me: “I’m doing Kegels...”
Keep staring them in the eyes, silently mouthing my reps.
My garage gym is complete and I am now immune to these fucking fear mongers forever.
https://youtu.be/S1bc5500tBQ
these morons have just implemented it here in Australia as well. Some ones brain was not in gear when they did this A
Me personally. Don't like Planet Fitness, I see then a wal-mart like in the fitness. get you in and get your cash. They don't care about results and helping you. I have been a member of three gyms. One was a YMCA which was piss poor manage. Keep jacking the rates. Keep charging you for things you weren't going to use. Then went to a corporate owned gym. Local Management was awesome. Expect top management was clueless. They had a great idea and business plan. They had no clue how to operate a fitness center. Decided to get back into the property renting business. All of them are now Dollar General's. Now at a local gym that went through a rough patch like all of them but is doing good.
Just canceled my membership last week for this very reason.
It must be nice to be able to go to a gym even with a mask on.
If a mask is required, you don't get to go to the gym. Don't give them a fucking inch.
I can’t go to the gym regardless. I might get a 99.6% survival rate disease.
99.995%
The Overton Window
More, my state has had gyms shut down even though we’re in “phase 5”.
This is what I’ve been doing. And more people are doing it. It’s awesome.
They have zero incentive to give a shit about their customers, because they believe they can just go get a government bailout check. They will complain their business was impacted by the government, ignore their own capitulation, and get MILLIONS in bailout from you and me. Now, small local gyms, dance studios, martial arts centers, and little leagues are completely shut down and most won't recover, but will get NOTHING but an unemployment check, if they are even that lucky. And the Democrat leadership? They are LOVING this misery.
They lift masks up and put them down
Do we have to wear the mask in the bathroom? I hear them poo microbes get all over everything.
Just buy gym equipment. Its pretty cheap. I calculated my payback period at 18 months. It kept me going for 18 months for sure still going after 3 years with a 12 month injury setback.
I just bought a squat rack bench press combo, then some dumbbells off a mate and some cheap rubber mats. The only other things Id like are a running machine. But I just run outside so no big deal.
Also gloves and weight belt which I actually realised I didnt add so maybe 19 months. Also im an Aussie this shits probs half the price in the US.
Crunch fitness has not required me to wear a mask since reopening after Mother’s Day.
Just left my gym too, not mask or covid related but I would have said it was because covid ain't shit if they asked
OP, that level of intransigence is best reserved for things like pro sports that support BLM and kneel for the anthem and all that.
A business that adjusts its policies in response to customer feedback should be rewarded, and thus business is itself struggling with government policies making them pass on shitty policies.
They did not adjust due to “customer feedback”, they adjusted due to customers leaving.
Go on Twitter and read how condescending the company was to those who cancelled due to the mask policy.
They were not just “passing down government policies”. If that were the case, they wouldn’t have rolled it back.
It was a corporate choice to virtue signal.
Further, what you tolerate, you get more of. “15 days to slow the spread” changed real quick. Don’t give a cent to advance virtue signaling and/or tyranny.
That's fair, i don't use them, so I've not followed news about them.
To be fair its summer time. Planet fatness does most of its business right after new years.
Not “most of their business”, most of their new accounts. They rely on 1,000s of rarely used accounts as a part of their business model. They may have 1,000x the number of members as a nearby comparable gym, hence why they can charge so little. However, when those accounts are cancelled en masse, it is no longer sustainable to charge only $10.
Options:
Get people back in (not likely without “6 months free!” type promotions).
Charge more (would backfire, as their base is largely those who don’t workout regularly, thus won’t pay more)
Due to COVID-1984, you can cancel over the phone.
Not saying to call that location or anything....
I’m in the people’s republic of Maryland and I refuse to wear a mask anywhere, so far no one at any store has had the balls to say anything, which is kind of upsetting because I’ve been looking forward to telling them to pound sand, but I guess smiling at everyone while they all walk around with their face condoms will have to do
‘Face condoms’ is too generous, as condoms are actually effective.
Well shit you got me there pede!
I will issue a correction to my story once the original fake one has received tens of thousands of views 😉
Ah, going the ol’ MSDNC route I see